Sharp County record., 1887-06-09

Turn whichever way you will, it shall go
lucky with you if you do not Stuck your
nose in bottle of medicine prepared tof
the regeneration of mankind. The air Is
full of nostrums. There is the protec-
t;onist's wonderful iron tonic for making
men rich by taxation. There is the mug
wump's civil service elixir for purifying
the system, and perpetuating liberty by
the erection of an aristocracy OF once
upon the ruins of representative govern
men.. There is frauds own pauper pa
triotic lament which proposes TO EXTERN
mate vagabondage by making every
tramp pensioner, and which We should
have actually had administered to Us pu1
for the fly Grover Cleveland droppoo in.o
the first box of the ointment subml ted TO
his inspection. There is that suga' -eoat-
ed, douole-compound, educational capsule
which is to be given to every little Niger
in the land before it goes to bed, ana
when he gets up in the morning ne snail
come forth scholar and a gentleman
And then there is Fox's universal reno
yator and social, moral and political
oure-all the tetotal prohibition porus
master which will stick to you Ike a
brother, and which is expected to convert
every drinking saloon into temple OF
worship, and re-people the world with a
new race of red nosed angels. L am
against each and all of these quick reme'
dies, and against the man who is in favor
of any one of them, and more particularly
AGAINST him if he claims to be democrat
They are the vaporing of mock sentiment
and the bastards of paternal llcenelous"
ness, They strike at the feet of constltu-
tional system which was conceived IN the
right Of man to govern himself, and
brought forth to meet the evil that man
kind is governed too much 1t would
amaze the fathers Of this republic TO look
in upon us to-day and to behold the
elaborate architecture and the costly and
variepated furniture with which the vanl-
tv and eysrice of men and the ingenuity
Of devils have contrlved to overlay and
decorate the simple republican structure
they hewed out of the primeval forests OF
nature and built upon the rock of liberty.
If it be not the mission Of the democratic
party to preserve in the new something
of the spirit of the old, to combine tradi'
ton with movement and to tighten the
highways of progress with brands snatch
ed from the fire kindled by those who
launched the ark of the union and made
the covenant of states, then there is no
future for ia but a repetition of histories,
which had better never been. L have fol-
lowed the morning star Of democracy
from the MONDAY secession through the
darkest hours of midnight reconstruction,
and, with the dawn Of peace and reason,
have seen it shine over united people as
bright and clear as the star of Bethlehem,
which presaged the coming of Christ;
and as truly as l believe that God relgnS
and orders all things for good, do l be-
lieve that this morning stac of democracy
which has returned to its meridian and
shines once more above the White House
at Washington, presages the final triumph
of freedom and the reign forever OF the
peoples simple magesty. 1t Is because
that | believe this that am unwilling to
weld one inch of the peoples ground to
encroachments Of innovation, and hold
these innovations to be dangerous when
they come clad in the raiment and lying
the flag of spurious democracy. l had
rather meet fifty enemies on the open
plain in honest fight than one single enc
nv disguised as friend.